Deep inside, at a dark hallway, we stopped in front of a heavy metal door. The engineer indicated I had only a brief moment to shoot. It took him a long minute to open the jammed door. The adrenaline surge was extraordinary. The room was absolutely dark, lit only by our headlamps.
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WASHINGTON —
Efforts to conceal the extent of dangerous car defects at Toyota Motor Corp were so pervasive, prosecutors say, that an exasperated employee at one point warned that “someone will go to jail if lies are repeatedly told.”
Yet no one has gone to jail, nor is anyone likely to.
The Justice Department earlier this month socked the Japanese car company with a $1.2 billion penalty but brought no criminal charges against individual executives, an unsatisfying resolution … Read entire article »

Soon after the Fukushima nuclear crisis began, Mike Sebourn says he began noticing changes in his body. First came nosebleeds, headaches and nausea. In August 2011 the symptoms worsened. Previously fit and strong, he began to lose energy and experience excruciating pain.
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